By: Paul Zech

“No penitentiary cell clamps / in ice all thinking as firmly as this …”

By: James Parker

“I’m an agony aunt. / I’m an aunt in agony.”

By: Annie Nocenti

“MISS JAMAICA”

By: Mark Kingwell

“I never thought of myself as a scholar of SF, but…”

By: Percy MacKaye

“This plunging, volant, land-amphibian…”

By: Leslie F. Stone

“I was forced to stand by while my friend passed through the bronze door and out of my sight — perhaps forever. “

By: Mark Kingwell

“TEARS OF A CLOWN”

By: Joshua Glenn

“Postmoderner-than-thou”

By: Joshua Glenn

“I genre-ize seriously, yes, but not earnestly.”

By: Carrie W. Clifford

“Altho no particle may stop or stay— / This Law immutable, you may not sway…”

By: Lynn Peril

“TEN COMMANDMENTS”

By: Lillian B. Jones

“I shall consider myself the advance guard of a mighty nation.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Lake Michigan Petoskey Stone

By: Joshua Glenn

THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA

By: Mark Kingwell

“I was in love with Leia and wanted to be Han, like every sane pre-adolescent boy.”